In Sheffield, a city of some 500,000 persons, 56,000 jam-jars were recovered in one week through a special collection conducted by school children. They realized 6 shillings--$1.50--a gross, and so brought in £120--$600. In Leicester the practice is, or was, to dispose of certain articles to the local marine store dealers after collection, and to divide the profit arising from the transaction among the employees engaged in the refuse-gathering task. One quarter’s waste, exclusive of old tins and waste-paper, netted £343--$1,715--of which £249--$1,245--was obtained from rags alone. There were 264 dozen jam-jars collected. They cost 15s.--$3.75--a gross new, and the trade expressed its readiness to take over the reclaimed vessels at 7s. 6d.--$1.87--a gross. Kensington made £1,000--$5,000--from the sale of one year’s collection of waste-paper. The Southport authorities recovered £2,000--$10,000--over a similar transaction. The metropolitan boroughs of Finsbury and Marylebone each swelled its local treasury to the extent of £500--$2,500--in a similar manner. The City of London garners 30 tons of this commodity every week. The ink-bottles recovered from the garbage barrels of the metropolis would provide a person with a comfortable income, averaging as they do several gross a day. Liverpool derives £300--$1,500--from house-swill alone, which it collects, dries, and turns into poultry-meal to sell at £15--$75--a ton. Aberdeen, as the result of one day’s organized collection, secured sufficient bottles to realize £567--$2,835. It is obvious that, no matter from what point of view the question is regarded, systematic organized salvage of the contents of the household dust-bin can be rendered a highly profitable enterprise. Certainly it opens up a promisingly rich and legitimate field for municipal trading, though it is equally accessible to private initiative. It is only requisite to survey the whole situation of the disposal of house garbage from the new angle of scientific application. It is not refuse in the generally accepted interpretation of the term. Such material should rightly be regarded as by-products of the private domestic kitchen.